The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

The I is always in the field of the Other.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.